Shoe-blacking kit.



H. P. ROBERTS.

$HOE BLAGKING KIT. APPLIUATION FILED 00121, 1907. RENEWED AUG. 10, 1908.

906,742. Patented Dec. 15,1908, F113 I 0 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HENRY l. ROBERT-S, Ul" BOS'ION, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GRAVES AND GRAVES COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF SHOE-BLACKING KIT.

Application flied October 7, 1907, Serial Nuv 396,267.

Patented Dec. 15,1908;

Renewed August 10, 1908. Serial No. 447,826.

To all whom it may roncerri:

Be it known that l, HENRY P. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States, residing in B'oston, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of tinssmrlrusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Shoe- Blacking Kits, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawin s, is a specification.

1) invention relates to means for blocking and polishing shoes, and concerns particularly unitary or self-contained groupin s or kits of materials and implements, supp ying all requirements for applying the blocking to and polishing the shoe.

It is understood that arran ements of this general type have been devisec heretofore, so

the novelty 'of this invention resides in the particular materials, and arrangements and groupings of implements selected.

The invention consists in a brush having a polishing surface, a receptacle )rovided with ttings for holdiu an open co lapsible tube of blocking, a daubcr arranged with its back to the tube of blocking and provided with a channel leading to the bristles of the dauber, a plunger adapted to enter the open tube of blackin after passing through the channel of the dau er, and a cap covering the daubcr.

The inven tion furthermore consists in such arran ements and combinations of parts as may be more particularly pointed out and described.

The drawings show in: Figure I, a side elevation of my shoe blanking brush with a collapsible tube of blaekiin held in position thereon. Fi 2, a plan of the brush and the casing 01' shell for holding the tube of hlacking. Fig. 3, a plan of the brush. Fig. 4, an end elevation of the brush and casin as viewed from the left of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, a ongit udinal section of the cap for the casin and the Jlunge-r for closing the blacking to N.

T e brush may be made in any usual manner, the one. illustrated having a polishing facing a of felt, attached to a wooden backing I). That, upper surface. of the wooden backing is goooved or hollowed out longitudinally as at t to receive the e 'lindrical shell or casing c, which is fastened )y the. screw (1 to the wooden backing of the brush, and the said casin 0 serves as a handle to gri the brush, on also as a receptacle for he] mg a package of blacking, as i. I have found that collapsible tubes form the best packages for blocking of semi-liquid or fluid nature, as pressure can be thereby applied to the blackmg cousin 1 it to flow from the tube, and such seiniliquiii kinds of blacking appear to be well adopted to devices of the class being described. Between the casing c and the backin" b of the brush, a sprin f is located andhe ld in place by the screw The end of the spring extends into a recess 9, formed in the wooden backing of the brush, to eimit freemovement of the sprin The ho e e admits the spring through theiottom of the casing.

To the front of the casing c is fastened the dauber h, and a collapsible tube i of blocking, from which the cover has been removed, is pushed into the casing or receptacle c, into close contact with the back 0f the dauber, the tube of blackingbeing secured in lace in the rece tacle by the pressure of tfie upturned latc dike portion k of the tube 2, just back of the stiff, rigid ring or edge lat the angular joint of the conical portion forming the mouth of the tube with the body of the said tube. When the blackin in the tube is exhausted, the tube is remove from the casin c by a smart backward jerk on thetube w rich causes the sprin to retract and releases the edge Z so the tu e may be withdrawn from the casin A hole m in tube i, distributes the blacking forced therefrom by applying pressure at the. opposite end of the tube 11, to the bristles n as reuired, but when no blocking is being used, the duuber may be cc 'ered bv the cap 0 that fits tightly over the end 1; of t e casing.

There IS a tendency for the bloc in to harden in the mouth of the tube-i, impe ing or stopping flow of blocking through the dauber. To remedy this matter, I attach a plunger g to the cap 0, which; is long enough to pass throu h the channel of the dauber into the mouth of the tube 2', where it may to, and also act to clown e mouth of the itube, preventing the blocking spilling there 'l'nlll.

.Vhen using my up )liance, the ca u is removed from the hall le or rcceptac e e, and if blocking does not flow readily to the dauber, the end 1' of the tube '8 may be folded over thereby applying pressure to usb blanking fmm the tube into the hole or 0 ran-- nel in the dauber. The long slot 3 in the the dauber, coincident with t e mouth of the;

break up lumps of blocking adhering therethe spring f, which indents the soft metal of casing 0 provides means for handling the tube 'i as its length decreases. is applied with the timber h to the shoe, when the Llanher ma be covered by the cap 0. The shoe may now be pulishecl by the felted taming (I 01' th bz'mh as u.-ual. awn-ml i i'uims, the term fkii i-; used to distinguish the (-n'nplete device, and the term brush for the lhillsllllitjf vlvlnvnt made of 11, bristles, or an equivalent.

Having described my inn-nli in, l vlniin,

nrnl (ltSlh tn $"l'ill't' by Letters Patent of the United States: I I

1. in a shoe hint-lung; i\li, n |n'u l. :i hollow blacking in the handle in contact with the Hullieient lilac-king l in the 1 base of the dauber, a cap for the extremity of the handle covering the dauber, and :i plun er attached to the ca ada ted to enter f and 0 use the open end of t 1e (:01 apsible tube of blaeking in the handle, substantially as described.

2. In a shoe blacking kit, a brush, adauher, a receptacle for an opentube of hint-king, and a spring latch to secure the tuluin the receptacle, substantially as (lescl'iiiml in testinmny whereof I have signed lny name to this spceiiieatiun in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

lllfii KY 1. ROBERTS.

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